What works better, what is useless, General skill chat Options

[DoomedOne]

So it's time for us to ask the great question after some good time playing the game. Is it truly balanced? Is it playable from any angle, or can you screw up by pushing skills in the wrong directions? Is there a standard skill set that works for vitually every character? Are certain skills better used by playing the game the same way (for instance, a stealth vampire better than a fighter vampire?)

I think certain skills are useless, being mysticism and security that I can think of. Other skills can be important no matter what the character, like illusion, marksman, restoration. So it seems if I want a knight he has to major in part to stealth. A stealthy character finds more options in the game than dash and hack, but at the same time does earn kills as fast. Mysticism only had 3 or 4 spells, and they all seem useless. Soul trap can be done just as easely without majoring in it and work as well (seeing as how rare grand soul gems are it doesn't matter if you ecounter them anyway) Tlekinesis is fun but useless as you can't do any harm to the monster. Dispel is useless because of how rare enchanted characters are anyway. When you do encounter them they're barely any more difficult.

Security can be done by just learning the game, and it doesn't make it that much easier when you get into higher levels. You'll still be searching for lockpicks at every corner.

Blade ended up being all powerful but I don't think it has anything to do with the joining of long and short, it's just there's a lot of seductive stuff that comes in blades. War hammers have there own seduction but not as powerful.

[Foster]

You usually get seen with Sneak if you attack/fight. Granted, on higher levels if it happens to be dark and moody you can kill of a few people without being seen (the 'I've been hit by six arrows and yet I can't be bothered to find out why' AI), but unless you're using magical assistance, you'll always get spotted at some point.

Personally I use sneak until I get an arrow in them, then charge. Occasionally a good smack in the back with whatever I'm carrying, then fight as per usual.

I level pretty easily on Acrobatics because I have a habit of taking shortcuts through town by vaulting over walls, and have an unhealthy obsession with near-vertical descent routes when walking in the Jerral Mountains. I don't think you need to major in it to get it up quickly.